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The Near Future of Intel
wh0pper wrote to mention a Design Technica story about the near-term future of Intel. They've been getting beaten in the press pretty soundly by AMD of late, and at the Intel Developer's Forum they did their best to convince attendees they were on the comeback trail. From the article: "It wouldn't be IDF if there wasn't a solid performance message. This time, Intel clearly had AMD in their sights. By a series of their products' massive performance improvements, Intel hit the ball back into AMD's court. With Microsoft's Vista operating system coming out at the same time, Intel showed how they have the higher performing solution. Clearly, we won't know until final systems ship. But Intel presented their case strongly, suggesting they can match AMD, if not beat them."
Except for online gamers and video producers, is there a big market for even faster processors? Apart from boot-up time, most users don't see a big difference after upgrading from .5 gHz processors to 2.5 gHz processors. It doesn't make the internet go faster, movies play in shorter times, or solitaire any easier to win. Without a market, why spend millions to develop a new product?